Sunday, December 16, 2012

Comic Book Show Today

I went to the Charlotte Comicon today. It's a local one-day show that's always a lot of fun. The costume contest was especially good this time. I also completed my Amazing Spider-Man collection by nabbing the last two issues I needed.

I am experiencing a curious addiction. When I type in your blog web address, it takes a little while for the latest entry to load...I sit here in anticipation, waiting to see what new issue will pop up. The longer the wait, the more my anticipation. It's a special thrill when I see a new silver age Marvel pop up, or some Ditko work.Does anyone else suffer from this malady, or am I the only one addicted to this blog?

I picked up a few more books in the past few days. Nothing major, but interesting stuff. I'll post them when I get the time to scan the books and write a little about the contents and the creators of same.

Ditko is still my passion, but as I fill in the last few big blanks in my Ditko collection I need to get started in a more serious way on my Kirby collection. I'll never complete that one, of course.

About Me

I'm a laborer working as a letter carrier for the USPS. I'm also a writer with over sixty published short stories, hundreds of pages of comic book scripts, scores of reviews, and several novels, among them THE FLOCK, THE CLAN, THE LIVING END, and others. In July 2009, Angry Films announced that they'd optioned the film rights to my novel, THE FLOCK.
My first novel, THE FLOCK, was published in October 2006. I also edited the Poe-themed anthology EVERMORE for Arkham House Books. I'm hard at work on my latest novel.
Tor Books now has the trade version of my first novel, in addition to the book's sequel (THE CLAN). My zombie novel THE LIVING END is now available, from Severed Press. You can order the new trade paperback Tor Books version of THE FLOCK here. My latest novel is WITHERING (written under my pen-name, Robert Mathis Kurtz).
All contents of this blog are copyright by James Robert Smith.